The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
COUNTY NOTES.
FROM REGISTER REPORTERS
What is Being Done Throughout the
county-Events and Gossip
of the Week.
Diamond 0loanings

II that typo In your Office does not set up our
items in better shape we shall certainly have
q settlement with him. We can laugh over an
occasiOnoll ymisspelledword aud the few twists
he gives our grammar Oncein while, but when
he sends our dear Kansas friends away or
down to Mississippi, as nc did Mrs. Mollie
Boughton few weeks ago. we '.just can't
stand 1t, and We wont. So thereto MRS L.
Boughton used to be one of our best girls, she
got far enough away when she married and
moved out to Fredric, Kansas, and We are not
willing to have the distance heightened .
single mile by MT. Typo at least till MI: Bough-
ton says SO.
How delightful cool and pleasant Monday and
Tuesday morning were, we began to feel as
though the earth was hot clear through, until
the rains Of last week cooled It, a little.
The corn on the river bottoms may be rs
good as some Of your correspondents report,
but If you want to see what the drouth did for
this part OF the county during the last halt OF
July, just come out and take look at the acres
and acres Of broom corn where the sun litter
ally cooked.the stocks and the..unripened brush
hangs to-day as worthless as though smltten
by heavy frost. And the corn fields which
IN the tenth of July promised yield Offorty
to fifty and seventy bushels per acre, are cut
down in their average one third to one half.
Hay which some estimated at two tons per acre
will take nearer two acres to make one ton.
And friends from more eastern and southern
parts of the county who have been in our neigh
borhood say we have not suffered SO much rs
they have.
We heard one man say that his potatoes were
cooked In the hill.
A relative of Mr.. George Smith has bought
the Willis sprague farm, and will occupy it a.
soon as the present occupant can conveniently
vacate.
DIR. Martin reports a new girl at Mr. Nader
and also one at MT. Quinn Whittoms' A little
son of the latter Is quite sick with typhoid
fever.
MT. John Edwards has been in the Doctors
hands lately.
MI. John Clark lost a horse one day last
week from the effects OF an over feed Of corn.
DIR Chastain reports the Martin family i'm
proving slowly.
Reports from moran say that MT. Lew West,
sOn-in-law ofMr Martin Is very low with
typhoid fever.
MT Clay Adams, of Lagrand neighborhood Is
lying very low, also young lady daughter Of
MT. Hames, both have typhoid fever Of a bad
type.
We heard that MT. Henry has some friends
Ing him, but we did not learn their names
nor where they were from. II our friends
would only drop in and inform us Of such mat
tiers we would gladly report them.
A Mrs. Cowdsn is visiting at MI. Gibson's,
she is said to be the first white woman who
settled in Kansas, having located ut the
old trading post f0rty-eight years ago,
and having made Kansas her home ever since.
She Is near her seventy third anniversary, and
is still asspry as most women of thirty, and
says she hardly knows what the headache is.
But as she has made her home for the last three
years In lola, We presume she lis well known
and perhaps some one is preserving incidents
and accidents Of her life to be added to the
coming "reminiscences of old settlers Of our
beautiful State.